Allen, et al What's helpful is that the facts often make stories that are just as compelling as are the fictions. There are so many of these fictions about, however, that it is challenging sometimes to keep the facts separated from closely associated fictions. Well, that and that so many of these fictions are contained. . . in texts. Ouch! Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker -----Original Message----- From: Allen Esterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/24/2008 12:55 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] What was Watson fired for? (Was: Profs who marry students) Sam Gaft wrote: > Heart Breaking. Perhaps it's time to retire all of my favorites > are being disproved. The falsity of multiple personality, The > murder of Kitty and now Zimbardo. I mean how can you teach > if your stories keep getting disproved. And Chris Green: > And John Watson was not fired from Johns Hopkins for doing > sex research, while we're at it. Nor did Skinner put his infant daughter Deborah in a laboratory box to study her behaviour. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1167653,00.html And an old favourite of mine: it is untrue that most of Freud's female patients in the mid-1890s told him they had been sexually abused by their father in childhood. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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